➡ See also the entry for traveller另见traveller条tramp ♦︎ vagrant ♦︎ beggar ♦︎ drifter ♦︎ bum ♦︎ scroungerThese are all words for a person who travels from place to place and/or asks people for food or money.这些词均表示流浪汉、乞丐。NOTE辨析 All the words in this group are disapproving or slightly disapproving. A frequent and more neutral way of talking about sb without a home is simply to say a homeless person/man/woman.本组所有的词都含贬义或稍带贬义。表示无家可归的人更常用的中性说法是homeless person/man/woman◆The number of young homeless people is on the rise.无家可归的青少年人数有上升趋势。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆an old tramp / beggar / bum■tramp [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who travels from place to place, usually asking people in the street for food or money(常指在大街上乞讨的)流浪汉,流浪乞丐◆An old tramp was sitting on a bench.一个老流浪汉坐在长椅上。■vagrant ˈveɪgrənt [countable] (formalorlaw法律) a tramp流浪汉;流浪乞丐◆The accused was a vagrant who travelled around, sleeping in parks and bus shelters.被告人是一个四处游走的睡在公园和候车亭的流浪汉。■beggar ˈbegə(r) [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who lives by asking people for money or food乞丐;叫花子◆There were a number of beggars sleeping in doorways.有一些乞丐睡在门口。 see also beg ⇨ borrow■drifter [countable] (especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who moves from one job or place to another with no real purpose漂泊者;盲流◆Several hundred drifters spend the night in the park.几百个游民在公园过夜。■bum [countable] (informal, especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who asks other people for money or food; a person who does no work, but spends a lot of time in a place, doing very little流浪乞丐;无业游民◆The city at night intimidated me with the bums and dealers shouting out abuse.这座城市入夜后会有流浪汉和摊贩大声叫骂,让我惊恐不安。◆He left college to lead the life of a beach bum(= sb who spends all their time on the beach, without having a job).他离开了学校,终日在海滩游荡。■scrounger ˈskraʊndʒə(r) [countable] (especially BrE, informal, disapproving) a person who gets sth from sb by asking them for it rather than by paying for it; a person who gets money from the government without working for it向他人索要物品者;不工作向政府讨救济的人◆He's such a scrounger. He tried to get me to pay his air fare home.他就知道伸手讨便宜,想让我给他买回家的机票。◆The government has launched a campaign against welfare scroungers.政府已经发起了一个运动,抵制钻福利制度漏洞的懒虫。 see also scrounge ⇨ borrow
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